CFP: ROPNET-2001 Workshop at GECCO-2001

[Franz Rothlauf <rothlauf@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu>]

                                 1st Call for participation

                                        ROPNET-2001

                REPRESENTAITONS AND OPERATORS FOR 
                                    NETWORK PROBLEMS

                              Bird-of-a-feather Workshop
                                               at the 
       Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001
                                       ( GECCO-2001 )

  San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday) 

                        A recombination of 
    the Sixth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2001) and 
    the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2001) 

                                          organized by

                                         Franz Rothlauf

                               to be held on Saturday, July 7, 2001


WORKSHOP SUMMARY

  Finding good solutions for network design problems is important in many fields 
  such as telecommunications, computer, backbone access, transportation and 
  distribution networks. Over the  last years genetic algorithms have been  
  applied with success to a wide variety of these different problems. One of the  
  major design issues is how the network could be represented as an artificial
  chromosome and what kind of operators could be defined on the chromosome. 

  The workshop is intended to give an overview over the existing approaches  
  and to discuss various  representations and operators in the context of 
  genetic and evolutionary computation. It should compare theoretical properties 
  and empirical performance characteristics of different representations and 
  operators and try to find explanations for performance differences of a genetic  
  algorithm. The workshop will be focused on representations and operators for  
  network problems, but it welcomes interesting contributions to encoding issues 
  that are meaningful for network representations. 


PARTICIPATION
 
     Presentations will be selected according to the submitted 10-page 
     papers which will be reviewed by at least two members of the 
     international program committee. Accepted papers will be available 
     in electronic form before the workshop. Abbreviated versions of 
     the papers will be later published in the workshop proceedings. 
     The length of each paper will be determined by the number of 
     accepted papers. 

     For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, 
     see the workshop pages at
     http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/

IMPORTANT DATES (subject to change)

     Paper submission deadline:                      March 1, 2001
     Decisions will be mailed by:                      April 1, 2001
     Submissions of camera-ready papers:    April 20, 2001

WORKSHOP CHAIR

      Franz Rothlauf 

      Department of Information Systems 
      University of Bayreuth 
      95445 Bayreuthn 
      Germany 
      rothlauf@uni-bayreuth.de 
      Tel/Fax: +49 921 55 2819, +49 921 55 2216 

      Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory 
      104 S. Mathews Ave. 
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
      Urbana, IL 61801 
      rothlauf@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu 

ATTENDANCE

     Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees.
 
     Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages
     ( http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/ ) as soon as it becomes  
     available.

    We are looking forward to your participation at the first
    workshop ROPNET-2001 which is a great opportunity to meet and 
    discuss the covered topics for researchers in this area of 
    research as well as the ones who would like to learn more 
    about representations and networks.